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Exactly. They don’t make (as much) money off of individuals buying licenses, the real dough is in bulk business licensing. And businesses want to do that in par
by tourmalinetaco 3y ago
Exactly. They don’t make (as much) money off of individuals buying licenses, the real dough is in bulk business licensing. And businesses want to do that in part because of the unparalleled software accessibility. The more people that use Windows, pirated or not, the more demand there is for Windows software, which locks enterprise customers in.
- squarefoot 3y agoTrue. Also, people using pirated Windows make anyway a critical mass where legit users can find someone to ask for help. Microsoft doesn't care about piracy as long as regular users know more people that would help them with Windows than for example with Linux. If tomorrow all users of pirated Windows OS and related software would magically migrate to Linux, the monetary loss for Microsoft would be zero, but more legit users might be incentivized to switch away from it because of the sudden raise in Linux knowledge around them. I'm sure Microsoft would be absolutely terrified by such scenario. And then there's user profiling and advertising, which works also on pirated copies, but that's another story.
- Dalewyn 3y ago[flagged]